Course Schedule

Essentials of Airway Management and Procedural Sedation

Please note:

There will NOT be an eight-hour Ultrasound course in Las Vegas, and the Airway / Procedural Sedation course at that location will begin at 2pm on November 7, with the first four hours being the Procedural Sedation model listed in this brochure for Day 3. (Registration opens at 1pm.)

Day 1 - September 20 / November 8 / February 21
7:00am Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:00am Rapid Sequence Intubation
9:00am Difficult Airway Management, Part I
10:00am Break
10:15am Difficult Airway Management, Part II
11:15am Pediatric Airway Management, Part I
12:15pm Lunch on your own
1:30pm Surgical Airway Techniques and Indications
2:30pm Pediatric Airway Management, Part II
3:30pm Break
3:45pm Mechanical Ventilation – the Devices and the Techniques
4:45pm Discussion, Questions and Wrap-up
5:15pm Close of Day 1

Day 2 - September 21 / November 9 / February 22


Day 2 begins at 8am and ends at 5:30 pm - there will be an hour lunch break and 15-minute mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks.

During the second day at the Los Angeles courses the participants will be broken into two groups – for half of the day, one group will continue to receive the didactic and multimedia lectures and the second group will rotate though the “hands-on” stations. Half way through the day the groups will swap.

Lecture Series:

Non-Invasive Ventilation (1 hour)
Asthma/CHF- Crash Intubations (1 hour)
The Patient with Head Trauma and a C-Spine Injury (1 hour)
Difficult Airway Cases (1 hour)

Hands-On Skill Stations (4 hours):

  • Bag-Valve-Mask Ventilation
  • Intubation/Laryngoscopy Techniques
  • Gum Elastic Bougie
  • Flexible & Rigid Fiberoptic Devices
  • Lighted Stylet
  • Combitube
  • Clinical Case Simulations
  • Pediatric Airway
  • Surgical Airway Techniques
  • Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA)
  • Intubating LMA
  • Proseal LMA
  • Needle Cricothyrotomy
  • Retrograde Intubation

Day 3 - September 22 / November 7* / February 23
(Day 1 in Las Vegas)

8:00am Adult Procedural Sedation
9:00am Pediatric Procedural Sedation
10:00am Break
10:15am Procedural Cases and Videos
11:15am Summary and Wrap-up
11:45am Close of Day 3

*The Procedural Sedation module will be given from 2pm until 5:45pm the first afternoon of the Airway course in Las Vegas. Registration is at 1pm.

Essentials of Emergency Ultrasound
(Separate Registration Required)

Day 1 - September 22 / February 23
12:15pm Registration
1:00pm Introduction and Basic Physics
1:30pm Trauma Ultrasound – The FAST Exam
2:15pm Basic Abdominal Ultrasound
3:00pm Break
3:15pm Procedural Ultrasound
4:00pm Understanding OB/Gyn Ultrasound
4:45pm Cardiac Ultrasound
5:15pm Close of Day 1

Day 2 - September 23 / February 24
Hands-On Rotations
8:00am Knobology
8:30am The FAST Exam
9:30am Aorta and Renal Ultrasonography
10:30am Break
10:45am Echocardiography
11:15pm Invasive Procedures and Venous Access
12:15pm Close of Day 2